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I am an old-fashioned American citizen who believes in our traditional values of freedom, truth, and justice. When I see our laws and government subverted and twisted into service of the undemocratic, powerful, corporate oligarchy, I must react with a patriotic defense of our values. I strongly oppose the ongoing destruction of what is left of American democracy and shall give voice to our common cause of freedom.
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All
of these crooks and liars helped Trump deceive America about their cozy
alliance with Russia, the Trump Tower Moscow deal, and cover-up of Trump’s
campaign finance felony. The rot at the core of this corruption and collusion
is within their white nationalist, pro-Putin, leader.

American
authoritarians and their Russian allies are now cackling with delight that
Putin’s Puppet has been "totally exonerated".

Never
mind this detail: "While this report does not conclude that the President
committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

So
what doesn’t bother them? Putin’s puppet humiliated our nation in Helsinki by siding
with Putin over US Intelligence. He betrayed our country, and allowed Putin
more unobstructed interference in our elections.

No problem. That’s
just all part of “making America great”.

"But
her EMAILS!!!"

What
about them? No secrets were passed on to Russians, like Trump did in the Oval
Office after boasting about firing Comey to stop the investigation.

Just
more betrayal.

"Russia,
if you're listening..." WAS collusion.

The
Trump Tower meeting with Russian agents WAS collusion.

Firing
Comey to shut down the investigation WAS obstruction. Only Trump loyalist Barr,
not Mueller, made the decision it wasn't obstruction.

Speaking
of emails...

This
is what collusion looks like:

Jun
3, 2016, at 10:36 AM,Rob Goldstone wrote:

Good
morning

Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very
interesting.

The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this
morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some
official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her
dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.

This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of
Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and
Emin.

What do you think is the best way to handle this information and would you be
able to speak to Emin about it directly?

I can also send this info to your father via Rhona, but it is ultra
sensitive so wanted to send to you first.

Jun
3, 2016, at 10:53, Donald Trump Jr. wrote:

Thanks Rob I
appreciate that. I am on the road at the moment but perhaps I just speak to
Emin first. Seems we have some time and if it's what you say I love it
especially later in the summer. Could we do a call first thing next week when I
am back?

Best,
Don

On
Jun 7, 2016, at 4:20 PM,Rob Goldstone wrote:

Don

Hope all is well

Emin asked that I schedule a meeting with you and The Russian government
attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.

I believe you are aware of the meeting - and so wondered if 3pm or later on
Thursday works for you?

I assume it would be at your office.

Best

Rob Goldstone

On
Jun 7, 2016, at 18:14, Donald Trump Jr. wrote:

Great.
It will likely be Paul Manafort (campaign boss) my brother in
law and me. 725 Fifth Ave 25th floor.

Seems
we have some time and if it's what you say I love it especially later in the
summer. Could we do a call first thing next week when I am back?

Best,
Don

It will be fascinating to hear what Mueller has to tell the House committees, won't it? I mean apart from, "It also does not exonerate him."

"[Papadopoulos, Manafort, Gates, Flynn and Cohen --] all of them lied about contacts with Russians to protect Trump, which was a part of his successful obstruction of justice...so far." ~~ Dave Dubya

I'm glad you brought this up, Dave, because it's a VERY important aspect of the two different crimes the report addresses -- conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

Republicans are under the spell of making the logical fallacy that since Mueller's Report did not find any evidence of collusion ("conspiracy"), then, by conclusion, there could not be any obstruction of justice.

Not true. Let's turn this around and see the problem with their failed logic.

If the crime of obstruction of justice were committed, which Mueller's Report indicates cannot be ruled out (i.e. Trump was not exonerated of this crime), and Trump's obstruction was successful, then this could very well be the reason that no evidence of collusion ("conspiracy") was ever discovered.

Dave and Jeff, I see that you guys have the right wingnut JTF all riled up again.I love it, just keep nailing him with the facts. SDNY, SDNY, SDNY will hopefully nail some of the Trump crime family, Don Jr, Ivanka, Kushner etc.

Let's not forget there is no Mueller Report available to the public. All we see is the Barr whitewash.

It’s only more fitting. The Palmer Report gives due credit to both partners in the ongoing cover-up of the Mueller Report.

”The Trump-Barr coverup of the Mueller report is already unraveling in real time”

...Team Trump’s first mistake was that the Barr summary was too cartoonishly glowing in Donald Trump’s favor to be plausible. This gave House Democrats leverage when it came to convincing the public that the real Mueller report be released. Now the media is finally starting to back off from its initial claims that the Barr summary was the Mueller report, and the media is calling for the real report to be released.

This has sent Donald Trump’s people scrambling, to the point that they can’t get their message straight. For instance Trump’s close ally Lindsey Graham, who has been positioning himself as some kind of de facto publicist for Barr this week, told a gang of reporters today that Barr is going to let the Trump White House redact any parts of the Mueller report that it considers to be covered under executive privilege, and then release it. This set off an immediate firestorm, because it’s obvious that Trump could simply redact all the parts that make him look bad.

Sure enough, just about an hour later, an unnamed DOJ official told NBC News that Barr won’t be letting the Trump White House see the Mueller report before it’s released. Oops. If Barr’s plan was to secretly let Trump whitewash the Mueller report before releasing it, then Graham just blew it by publicly talking about it. This has forced the DOJ to publicly commit to the position of not giving it to Trump, and it’s set up a brewing scandal about whether the DOJ might still try to secretly slip the report to Trump before releasing it.

The more convoluted this coverup becomes for Team Trump, the more they have to backtrack, and the more they have to publicly address the details of what they are or aren’t doing to cover it up, the more of a firestorm this becomes. We’re only 48 hours into Team Trump’s attempt at burying the Mueller report, and it’s already unraveling for them in real time. At this rate, the Trump-Barr coverup could quickly become Trump’s most problematic scandal to date.

Have you ever noticed that every major scandal requiring a special prosecutor, congressional investigation, or special counsel has always been - less Bill Clinton's blow job - about investigating a Republican president or administration?

This highlights very clearly the authoritarian nature of Republican personalities and their overall rejection of democratic rule and processes.

"In deciding that Trump didn’t obstruct justice after a paltry 48 hours of review, Barr 'concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.' He came to this conclusion — in spite of saying during his confirmation hearings that what Trump is known to have done amounts to obstruction — because Mueller found that 'the evidence does not establish that the President was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference.'

That’s not the crime that, the evidence quite clearly shows, Trump may have committed. This is not the crime that Manafort appears to have lied about in hopes of getting a pardon.

In giving Trump the all-clear on obstruction charges, Barr appears not to have considered whether Trump obstructed the actual crime in question. He instead considered whether the president obstructed a different crime. This is the legal sleight of hand that has allowed Barr to proclaim that Trump will not be charged.

The Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee now has abundant reason to get all the underlying materials from the Mueller inquiry, because the attorney general just cleared the president of something he agreed constituted a crime just a few months ago." ~~ The New Republic, excerpt from "Yes, Trump Obstructed Justice. And William Barr Is Helping Him Cover It Up" by Marcy Wheeler, 3/24/2019

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